Re: ORM add on for Dia

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 03 Aug 2002, Arch Murphy wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is on ORM plug in for Dia. Object Relational
> Modeling (ORM) is a data modeling method like Entity Relationship
> Modeling (ER) already supported by Dia.
> 
> ORM however is superior to ER and is currently being implemented by
> Microsoft as an add on for  the Visio diagram tool. Examples of the sort
> of diagrams used are at http://ORM.Net.

No, we don't have direct support for that.  Most of the things I see there
can be made with the current shapes, though specially crafted ones could
make it easier.  In particular the multi-boxes would be a bit impractical
with current shapes.

-Lars

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